In Sweet Thames, which takes place in London in 1849, the central character, engineer Joshua Jeavons, hopes to save his marriage by impressing his wife with his plans to drain the sewers and prevent impending cholera. The tale takes us for a tour among both the social and sewerage underworld of London. Again historically accurate and instructive, but the attempted humour in this earlier book is lost in the constraints of the story line.
(Adam Swann - bwl 20 September 2003 ) |
